About the Kaiser Papers

In September of the year 2000 my father, Adam Wesley Arnold was euthanized by Kaiser Permanente staff in Los Angeles, California.

My
family and I witnessed the cruel acts that were committed against our
father in the name of saving a corporate buck so administration would
have a few more pennies in their coffers.

We were devastated by the Kaiser attitude which was basically “Tough Toadies People”. I began studying the workings of Kaiser Permanente and discovered a group of wonderful, supportive professionals on a list serve operated through – HARP – The Health Administration Responsibility Project, which is hosted by Dr. Harvey Frey, who is a physician, and an attorney. The function of HARP is self-explanatory.

During this same time period I met Mr. Ronald Panzer, LPN, President of Hospice Patients Alliance. HPA promotes quality end of life care and has taken a stand against imposed killings in the medical setting. HPA provided to me information regarding the financial incentives of HMOs in general, Kaiser among them.

Both groups were extremely supportive of me and both groups shared enormous amounts of information regarding the financial incentives of Kaiser Permanente to deny care, avoid diagnosis and outright eliminate the patient in any way possible if they are or they think they are going to be expensive to treat medically.

Dr. Charles Phillips, a former Kaiser Physician steered me in the right direction.

It was suggested by a Florida physician, that since I was receiving numerous letters of support from members of the public, who also were sharing their stories with me that I organize the data that I had already acquired. That way we would be providing documentation of what is taking place in the Kaiser Permanente environment.

Thus the Kaiser Papers web site was born from the most painful, eye opening experience we have ever had.

We try to provide to the public information that will alert them as to what to watch out for in this new type of Discount Department Store Medical Care. Whenever possible, we advocate for the patient. Whenever possible we also assist the Kaiser victim in receiving decent medical care outside of Kaiser and assist them in obtaining legal assistance by steering them towards attorneys who may chose to represent them. We do not do that for them.

In the beginning we had people undercover at Kaiser. These were patients that wanted to fight Kaiser legally through their own channels of operation and they obtained much evidence that is currently very useful to law enforcement and our legislators. Some of them also worked for Kaiser in the hospital.

We seldom do this any longer because it has proven to be physically dangerous to the patient. Instead we encourage people that can, to please obtain medical care just about anywhere else. We would prefer if at all possible that they avoid any HMO just because of the manner such organizations are run. HMO’s are in existence for the personal benefit of the owners, the stockholders or who ever is running their show. We acknowledge though, that not everyone has the opportunity to obtain medical care elsewhere.

HMOs and Kaiser in particular are not in business to help the patient with anything that is long term, potentially life-threatening, expensive unless they are going to get something out of it, or just plain complicated. They are good for cheap co-pays on prescriptions and general minor ailments. Someday, everyone is going to have a serious, life-threatening illness. When they do, they will not want to have an HMO, especially Kaiser Permanente for their medical coverage. There are now many people that contribute to the Kaiser Papers data. Not all of them are listed here though someday I hope that they all can all be publicly recognized. All of us work on a voluntary basis. No one accepts any financial payment in any form for their work. Any and all donations are accepted with no strings attached and are used solely for the support of patient advocacy. We are clean, untainted and pure of any influence from Kaiser Permanente.

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This is a Public Service Page. This website has been in Copyright Since September 11, 2000 This web site is in no manner affiliated with any Kaiser entity and the for profit Permanente

This website is set up in several different subdomains for ease in obtaining information, for categorization, and to make it as easy as possible for the public to quickly obtain information that they need. The original site had over 22,000 pages documenting various aspects of Kaiser. This rebuild of the site which was created due to weaknesses in the old one will probably add a few more thousand pages.

Please locate documents in the Category or Topic sections found under this writing The Patient Horror Stories Section is now located in this division and is categorized. Found under Topics.